3.5mm headphone jack

I tried searching for this but didn't find anything so I'm sorry if this is answered somewhere else, or if I'm in the wrong spot. I need to know if there is anything that needs to be done to "activate" for lack of a better word, the 3.5mm jack on the Charge. In other words are there settings for it? Turn it on or off?
The reason I ask is that I purchased a Native Union Retro POP handset to use with my Charge. The 3.5mm plug fits my 3.5mm jack but the handset still doesn't work. I emailed the company and they said that I needed a 3.5mm adaptor for my 3.5mm jack (???)
Anyway, they sent that out and it still doesn't work. Before I tear them a new one for having to wait 39 days to receive the adaptor which caused my "window of time to return an item" to expire, I want to make sure that I'm not doing some idiot thing with a setting etc. causing it not to work.
I have no headsets or anything to test with my phone to see if other things work.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Rhonda

Well Davidoo I hate to admit it but I had a true "blonde" moment. That is exactly what it was. I have an Otter Box on the phone and it looked like it was pushed all the way in. I pushed some more and heard the click. Boy do I feel like an idiot.
Thank you very much for solving this problem for me. Now if you can just help me to stop doing goofy things.
Thanks again.
Rhonda

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For those of you out there with this problem, here is my story and solution.
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The Macbook was under warranty, so she took it to the local Apple repair agent. They told her that because it was her fault, this problem was not covered by the warranty. So she paid the usual horrendous service charge for them to evaluate and find a solution. Two weeks later, the Apple Agent called to say that they could not get the jack out, and because it was built-in to the logic board, the only solution was to replace the logic board at a cost exceeding the cost of the new MacBook. Horrified, my daughter went back to the Mac shop, paid the service charge, and decided to live without the audio. As a parting gesture, the Mac agent also kindly reminded my daughter that the rest of the six month warranty was now totally invalidated because it was her fault (even though Apple were the only ones ever to have serviced the computer).
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Broken headphone jack! 3.5mm dillemma. Help. Please.

Hi.
So my headphone jack has broken off clean into two pieces.
The trouble is the 3.5mm jack protuberant is now stuck inside my iTouch and due to the amazing self-locking mechanism of earphone/headphone ends, it will not come out, whatever I do.
Tweezers have not helped, neither has a small magnet.
I'm glad I gave up on the magnet for I have now come to know that the hdd is right next to the earphone socket.
Anyway, I need help.
How do I get that broken-piece out of the socket?!
Please. Help.
Many thanks, in advance.
- AP.

Guys,
It is done! It's out! I have achieved what surely seemed impossibe. I mean the things I tried with my iPod Touch, be it tweezers, pliers, glues, toothpicks, ear-buds.
I read about all of these wondorous ideas and plans online, to take out that unholy peice of metal lodged in my iTouch socket.
But anyway, yesterday you guys gave me some good tips. I was about half-way in the decision making process of making appointment with The Store and almost about ready to dive into what Alex suggested up here.
But then this evening, something made me go back to glue.
Glue, the creation of the century. Or well, maybe last century, or the one before that, I'm not sure when glue was dicovered/invented.
Anyway, getting to the point. It's out.
All I did, was make another failed attempt with the squared-off end of a tooth-pick dipped is some superglue. Like always, it stuck to the little golden 1mm protuberant like a charm. One pull, and it came off, while the thing was still lodged inside.
I went back to the headphones. I saw the broken off jack and realized, there was a bit of a cavity at the point where the jack had broken off. So I gave a tiny squeeze to the superglue pen and filled the cavity with just about a single drop of glue. Next, I rammed the headphone jack back into the socket.
I swear I wasn't expecting anything to happen. Barely 10 seconds into the "Eureka attempt", I don't know what came over me and I just pulled on the cord.
And there it was! IT WAS OUT.
Simple. Effective.
The solution always is right next to the where the problem began.
I should add, the speaker on the iTouch works fine, like everything else.
BUT, when I plugged in my new headphones, there's no output to the RIGHT channel.
I must say, this makes me sad. I don't know if I messed up something with the glue or pliers. Can't say.
I might have done some damage to those tiny silver dot like things on the socket wall which act like the self-locking mechanism for earphones/headphones.
Anyway, if it does end up working again, I'll be sure to let you guys know.
Many thanks again for the help.
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